Re: breaking the IP model (or not)

2000-04-14 Thread Greg Skinner
Keith Moore wrote: perhaps architectural impurity alone shouldn't keep you from doing something, but the fact that something violates fundamental design assumptions should cause you to do some analysis and hard thinking about the likely consequences of using them. and if you are in the

Re: VIRUS WARNING

2000-05-07 Thread Greg Skinner
Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but sooner or later folks are going to be held liable for poor engineering or poor implementation of networking software, just like folks today can be held liable for poor engineering or implementation of bridges or buildings. I don't see how, as long as

RE: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

2000-05-07 Thread Greg Skinner
Mathis Jim-AJM005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need to move forward with IPv6 both by deploying it in the "core" and setting a time-frame after which non-IPv4 compatible addresses will be assigned. Unless there is a clear reason to move, no one wants to change software just to change. Once

Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

2000-05-08 Thread Greg Skinner
"David R. Conrad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, nostalgia. It's so nice to revisit old "discussions"... There was a similar discussion here about five years ago where some people proposed market models for address allocation and routing. Unfortunately, it's not in the archives. If anyone has

Re: PIARA (IP address space economics)

2000-05-08 Thread Greg Skinner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Doran) wrote: If steps are taken to avoid the development of a massive black aftermarket for IPv4 addresses overallocated by IANA et al., by providing the mechanisms of a "white market" -- notably a public registry of IP address title, with an exclusive but

Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

2000-05-09 Thread Greg Skinner
"J. Noel Chiappa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Greg Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] There was a similar discussion here about five years ago where some people proposed market models for address allocation and routing. Unfortunately, it's not in the archives.

Re: HTML email

2000-05-16 Thread Greg Skinner
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how many people are still using plain-text, non-HTML enabled mail readers? It still happens on some mailing list, where someone will send a base-64 encoded html'ified message (usually using MS Outlook), and someone will send back "try

Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

2000-07-11 Thread Greg Skinner
Jon: personal comment Other classes of organisation may simply be providing a subset of internet services - I don't see a market or technical case for these and in fact would encourage regulatory bodies to see if these types of organisations are trying to achieve lock out or are engaged in

Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

2000-07-17 Thread Greg Skinner
Masataka: If IETF makes it clear that AOL is not an ISP, it will commercially motivate AOL to be an ISP. Keith: probably not. folks who subscribe to AOL aren't likely to be reading IETF documents. face it, it's not the superior quality of AOL's service that keeps AOLers from moving

Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

2000-07-17 Thread Greg Skinner
Masataka Ohta wrote: If IETF makes it clear that AOL is not an ISP, it will commercially motivate AOL to be an ISP. Why? Certainly, they are aware that they are not an ISP by your definition. It hasn't changed their business practices. Why would an IETF RFC change their business practices?

Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

2000-07-20 Thread Greg Skinner
Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the reason I say that your statement is content-free is that it offers no specific criticism of IETF that can be used in a constructive fashion. With respect to this particular thread, the only criticism I'd make is I don't see how the draft in question

Re: Complaint to Dept of Commerce on abuse of users by ICANN

2000-07-31 Thread Greg Skinner
Lloyd Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Allen Simpson wrote: The users of the Internet have access to several free browsers that support frames on a dozen platforms. Folks that are unable to use the Internet are not an appropriate electorate. Lazy kindergartners are not the target

more on IPv6 address space exhaustion

2000-08-11 Thread Greg Skinner
Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a routeable prefix was given to every human, using a predicted world population of 11 billion, we would consume about 0.004% of the total IPv6 address space. (The actual calculation is 11*10^9/2^48 since there are 48 bits in an IPv6 routing

Re: more on IPv6 address space exhaustion

2000-08-14 Thread Greg Skinner
At 02:53 PM 8/11/00 -0700, Greg Skinner wrote: I have heard on some local (SF bay area) technology news reports that the Commission on Online Child Protection is looking at dividing the IPv6 address space into regions that can be classified according to their "safety" for child

Re: What is at stake?

2002-02-04 Thread Greg Skinner
Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this scenario, and with all due respect to everyone's opinions, policies that might have been justifiable some 10 or 15 years ago, such as laissez-faire interoperation, conformance verification and trust, cannot be justified by saying the existing system

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-etal-ietf-analysis-00.txt

2002-03-29 Thread Greg Skinner
Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The implications for this seem clear enough. It seems to imply that the amount of traffic per protocol the activity goes on to generate is a reasonable milestone for any IETF activity. This doesn't mean the POISED list (or heck, even the IETF general

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-etal-ietf-analysis-00.txt

2002-03-31 Thread Greg Skinner
Bob Braden wrote: Mark Adam wrote: Ok... So I'm being a little idealistic, but this is different that just saying Me too to the We ain't makin' widgets responses. Optimally we should judge the work of a WG based on how well its output is accepted by the world at large, but that's a little

Re: The gaps that NAT is filling

2004-11-28 Thread Greg Skinner
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:11:19 +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 07:03 -0500, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Without solutions to these four problems on the horizon, I can't voice any enthusiasm that the larger address space in IPv6 will eliminate NAT in home or enterprise networks.

Re: Fw: Impending publication: draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02.txt

2005-03-02 Thread Greg Skinner
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:49:17PM +, Paul Vixie wrote: The IAB is ready to ask the RFC-Editor to publish What's in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02 as an Informational RFC. [...] i think this document is

Re: History...?

2005-06-27 Thread Greg Skinner
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:23:31AM -0700, Bob Braden wrote: I just came across a 1993 mailing list for the ietf. Anyone care, before I delete it? Is ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf-mail-archive/ietf considered to be the definitive archive for the IETF discussion list? According to the names of the

Re: History...?

2005-06-27 Thread Greg Skinner
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:35:24AM -0700, Bob Braden wrote: Since I have already received 6 requests for the 1993 IETF mailing list, I put it up on the ancient history page of the RFC Editor web site. Oops ... didn't realize it was the distribution list, not the archive. Since some of those

Re: e2e

2007-08-15 Thread Greg Skinner
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:44:09PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote: Keith Moore wrote: ...at the cost of dropping legitimate traffic. the thing is, the set of valid senders for you and the set of valid senders for everyone at cisco is very different, and the latter set is much fuzzier. and

Business case for IPv6 (Was: Re: one example of an unintended consequence of changing the /48 boundary)

2007-08-28 Thread Greg Skinner
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:20:01PM +0100, Michael Dillon wrote: In two or three years, IPv4 network growth will be severely limited. Any business whose revenue growth is linked to IP network growth, must use IPv6 for this beyond two to three years from now. IN order to successfully use IPv6

Re: Renumbering

2007-09-13 Thread Greg Skinner
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:43:38PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, David Conrad wrote: How do you renumber the IP address stored in the struct sockaddr_in in a long running critical application? Applications that don't respect DNS TTLs are broken for many reasons, not just

Re: Call for action vs. lost opportunity (Was: Re: Renumbering)

2007-09-14 Thread Greg Skinner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:48:45AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: [sorry, lost attribution here] TCP protects you from lots of stuff, but it doesn't really let you recover from the remote endpoint rebooting, for example... well, duh. if the endpoint fails then all of the application-level

Re: ideas getting shot down

2007-09-20 Thread Greg Skinner
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:08:38PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: Paul Vixie wrote: yes, but do you think that was because that ietf was powerless to stop [NAT], or because that ietf was willing to let consenting adults try out new ideas? i was there, and from what i saw, it was the former.

Re: Representation of end-users at the IETF (Was: mini-cores (was Re: ULA-C)

2007-09-22 Thread Greg Skinner
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:29:34PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:50:44AM +, Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 32 lines which said: in the IETF, the naysayers pretty much kick the consenting adults' asses every

Re: FW: I-D Action:draft-narten-ipv6-statement-00.txt

2007-11-13 Thread Greg Skinner
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 11:30:42AM -0500, Thomas Narten wrote: Hi. A little more background/context that got me here. My original thinking was to do something like what ICANN and the RIRs have done, to bring awareness to the IPv4 situation and call for IPv6 deployment. I think the IETF

Re: Change the subject! RE: [IAOC] Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF71 Plenary

2007-12-30 Thread Greg Skinner
Hallam-Baker, Phillip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a question of ambition. At sixteen I was interested in mastering the computer at its most fundamental level. I wrote arcade games in 6502 and Z80 assembler. Today the idea of booting linux on a laptop would not make my top ten, hundred or

Re: Change the subject! RE: [IAOC] Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF71 Plenary

2007-12-30 Thread Greg Skinner
doin enginering without deadlines or user requirements. But that is not the real world we have to work in. Sent from my GoodLink Wireless Handheld (www.good.com) -Original Message- From: Greg Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 01:44 PM

Re: Site hit rates and AOL

2001-07-22 Thread Greg Skinner
Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So online advertisers that are counting impressions and unique viewers are just making the numbers up? Yes and no, depending on one's POV. Some are using statistical techniques to estimate the actual size of the population viewing an ad or a page